TendenciesTendencies brings together for the first time the essays that have made Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick "the soft-spoken queen of gay studies" (Rolling Stone). Combining poetry, wit, polemic, and dazzling scholarship with memorial and autobiography, these essays have set new standards of passion and truthfulness for current theoretical writing. The essays range from Diderot, Oscar Wilde, and Henry James to queer kids and twelve-step programs; from "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl" to a performance piece on Divine written with Michael Moon; from political correctness and the poetics of spanking to the experience of breast cancer in a world ravaged and reshaped by AIDS. What unites Tendencies is a vision of a new queer politics and thought that, however demanding and dangerous, can also be intent, inclusive, writerly, physical, and sometimes giddily fun. |
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... transfigure — the energies of some received 1. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , Epistemology of the Closet ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1990 ) , pp . 87-88 . forms of writing that were important to me : the Foreword xiii.
... transfigure — the energies of some received 1. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick , Epistemology of the Closet ( Berkeley : University of California Press , 1990 ) , pp . 87-88 . forms of writing that were important to me : the Foreword xiii.
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... writing of Tendencies was almost coterminous with that of Episte- mology of the Closet — with a couple of extra years added on to the end— so the acknowledgments to that book can also stand , with big second help- ings of love to the ...
... writing of Tendencies was almost coterminous with that of Episte- mology of the Closet — with a couple of extra years added on to the end— so the acknowledgments to that book can also stand , with big second help- ings of love to the ...
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... writing and teaching , even within literature ; but some effects do seem widespread . I think many adults ( and I am among them ) are trying , in our work , to keep faith with vividly remembered promises made to ourselves in childhood ...
... writing and teaching , even within literature ; but some effects do seem widespread . I think many adults ( and I am among them ) are trying , in our work , to keep faith with vividly remembered promises made to ourselves in childhood ...
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... writing can effect ( prom- ising ? smuggling ? ) ; anything that offers to make this genre more acute and experimental , less numb to itself , is a welcome prospect . 10. One of the most provocative discussions of performativity in ...
... writing can effect ( prom- ising ? smuggling ? ) ; anything that offers to make this genre more acute and experimental , less numb to itself , is a welcome prospect . 10. One of the most provocative discussions of performativity in ...
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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. PROJECT 3 This project involves thinking and writing about something that's actually structured a lot of my daily life over the past year . Early in 1991 I was diagnosed , quite unexpectedly , with a breast cancer ...
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick. PROJECT 3 This project involves thinking and writing about something that's actually structured a lot of my daily life over the past year . Early in 1991 I was diagnosed , quite unexpectedly , with a breast cancer ...
Contents
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Queer Tutelage | 21 |
Crossing of Discourses | 107 |
Across Genders Across Sexualities | 165 |
Bibliography | 267 |
Index | 275 |
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